Improvement in milk-strainer



atmjttftire.

www

ALONZO A. BINGHAM, OF OOOPERSTOWN, NE\V YORK, ASSIGNOR vTO HIMSELF AN GEORGE MCNAMEE, OF SAME PLAGE.,

Laim Patent No. 87,904, dated M01/rch 16, 1869.

IMPROVEMENT `IN MLK-STRAINE The Schedule referred to in these Letters P-atent and making part of the same.

l'o all 'whom 'it may conce/rn Be it known that I, ALONZO A. BINGHAM, of the village of Cooperstown, in the county of Otsego, and State of New York, have invented a new and improved Mode of Attaching Strainers to Milk-Fails and other vessels and I do hereby declare the following to be a full and exact description thereof, reference being had to the accompanying drawing, forming a part of this specication, in which- A represents the milk-pail;

C, 1the! strainer-frame, secured to the spout of the pail B, the detachable, or outer strainer-frame;

D, a piece of wirestraining-cloth; 'and E E, thumb-screws, by which the two lil-ames are fastened together.

The nature of mylnventionco'nsists in an improved mode of securing a piece of plain wire gauze, or strainercloth, to the spout of a milk-pail, by the use ofa frame soldered, orotherwise secured to the spout, upon which a triiling cost, and without the need of tools, or of sending the pail to a tinmau for repair.

The dairyman, supplied witha piece of wire strainercloth, may, with a pair of common shears, cut out his strainers from the wire cloth, and apply a new one to his pail, at his pleasure, with economy in time and expense. Hence I have named my invention The Dairymans Friend.

My improved milk-straining pail A is provided with a spout 'of any desired shape, either square or otherwise, polygonal, or round, or oblong, insection, which is securely fitted Ato the upper part of the pail, at any desired point.

To the end of this spout I solder', or otherwise se'- curely fasten, a simple metallic frame, G, of the same general form as that ofthe end of the spout, viz, square, round, oblong, or polygonal, and having a central opening, coincident with that of the spout.

Upon this frame O, I place a second frame, B, the

exact counterpart thereof, and fasten it thereon by apertures in the outer detachable frame B, and screwing into threaded apertures in the fixed frame O.

The frames B C may be stamped out, at a very low cost, from tinned iron, and will outwear several pails, to which they may be successively attached.

Spring-catches, hooks, and slots, or other equivalent devices, may be used, instead of the thumb-screws E, to secure the plates together,l but I prefer the latter, because of their simplicity. The strainer is made ready for use -by cutting out, with ordinary shears, from a sheet o'f wire straininggauz'e, or cloth, a piece, D, slightly larger than the opening in the frames, placing it upon the fixed frame O, then adjusting the outer frame B toits place', screwing it tightly down, so as to hold the edges of the wire cloth firmly and securely.

Although I prefer to use a fixed inner frame, O, soldered to the end of the spout, as a support for the outer frame B, yet I contemplate bending or stamping the edges of the rim of the spout outwardly, to form a support for said outer frame.

I am aware that detachable strainers, made of wire straining-cloth, soldered to a detachable seat, and vaheretofore employed; and also that pieces of simple wire cloth, held in place Within the spout of a pail by an end piece screwing into the spout against the strainer, andby an elastic wire sprung into the spout, against the wire cloth, have been used, and hence I disclaim the `use of a detachable piece of Wire cloth, as a strainer tion, y

I claim therein as new, and desire to secure byLetters Patentwith the fixed plate O, secured upon the end of the O, substantially as hereiudescribed, for the purpose of retaining a piece of wire straining-cloth, D, over the mouth of the spout, as herein set forth.

l ALONZO A. BINGHAM.

Witnesses: GEORGE MCNAMEE, ELLERY l?. OonY.

means of thumb-screws -E E, passing through simple' riously secured to the spouts of milk-pails, have been for a milk-pail; but having fully described my inven- The detachable plate, or frame B, when combined` spout of a milk-pail, and fastened to said fixed plate 

